New year invites reflection on the last 12 months, and hobby wise it’s often nice to look back on models painted and games played. At the start of year, I didn’t set myself any concrete goals (although that will change this time!), although I had the intention to finish my modest forest goblin force for […]

After a bit of a painting hiatus I’ve managed to get some brushtime in this week and finished off the greenskins from the Heroquest boxset. I have to admit, these are probably my least favourite models from the box. The poses are all quite static (which looks very odd in the case of the ball-and-chain-armed […]

After the exciting but slightly frantic completion of my Dwarf army in time for BOYL (blog posts showing the full army coming soon), it’s been nice to turn my attention to Blood Bowl, and some lovely old models in the form of the original Chaos All-Stars. I decided to veer away from the classic pink […]

Over the past few weeks, while nippy has been hard at work constructing a framework for some linked battles on Thorkinson’s island, I’ve been trying to add a bit of flavour to the old pitched battle. In my experience, despite the availability of scenarios (e.g. in the 6th ed rulebook), most players, most of the […]

One of the many things missing from my nascent Empire force is a cannon. I had one of the old citadel field guns, the ones that are now available at foundry, in my ‘to paint’ pile for a while. Then I realised what was putting me off was its size- it’s hardly imposing, barely a […]

As a small break from my Dwarfs I’ve recently finished off the first unit from my third (and until the rest are finished with, final) Warhammer contingent, the Skaven of Clan Greypox. I decided that I wanted my Clanrats to be really varied and colourful, so painted each model pretty much as I liked! The […]

In preparation for my first ever game of Warhammer at the White Eagle Gaming Club, I’ve finished off another house’s worth of troops for my Dwarf throng…the flamboyant spearmen and gunners of House Brannthior. The spearmen were a group of models that I remembered fondly (like the Longbeards) from Paul Robins’ Golden Demon winning army, […]

So, a bit of an update on the progress of my Empire force. It’s almost 1000 points now, and should be ready for our campaign we have planned for BOYL. As I mentioned in the last post, I’d like to create a sharp divide between the liveried troops of the local liege lord, and the […]

The next batch of my Dwarf army for BOYL 2018 is finished! This time around House Grunndorn has contributed two units to the war effort: a regiment of surly but stalwart Longbeards, and a deadly Flame Cannon! I remember first seeing the Longbeard models in Paul Robbin’s amazing Golden Demon winning Dwarf army from 1992, […]

I’ve just finished the first full regiment for my Dwarf army, the Clansmen of House Imskarn. The unit is mainly built from the original plastic Warhammer box set: Fantasy Regiments. This set was just being phased out of GW stores when I was starting out in the hobby and I never owned it, but I […]